24 Gifts Of 2008 - #20 - All About The Image (Ryan/Isabella, Superstar!Verse)

This is another one in the Superstar!Verse, where Ryan is a David Beckham-esque Soccer star. This one takes place back when Ryan and Isabella were nearer to the beginning of their relationship, when Ryan was just starting to become famous.

"What is your agent going to say when he finds out about this?" Isabella asked as she rolled over to comb her fingers through Ryan's hair.

"That I've ruined my image by settling down instead of staying single and 'available'?" Ryan replied, rolling his eyes. "I'm quite fine with my image changing to guy who is madly in love with a beautiful woman who apparently loves me back. Unless you're secretly just after my money and fame," he added with a smirk.

"Yes, because I am just that self absorbed and greedy," Isabella agreed, nodding and trying to keep a straight face.

"Of course I am," Ryan said. "I wanna be with you forever, I wanna be able to say that I'm lucky enough to be married to that gorgeous woman everyone always sees at the matches. I'm just... not looking forward to the fallout."

"We will get through it," Isabella promised. "And then we will have to survive the monstrous wedding that my family will want to throw us, and the war between my parents and yours over who gets to be in charge of the wedding planning..."

I seriously could not believe that no one else (That I've seen) has written Ryan as playing Soccer professional! I've seen tones of other stuff, including AUs where he's an actor, but never soccer, which has a basis in canon! lol